• Record Label: Heavenly
  • Release Date: Jul 15, 2022
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. 80
    Their ability to drop a pop banger has been proven already – they can do it – but they just find reimagining what Cybotron would sound like as a future-punk band, and that exploration in sound proves to be a gripping listen here.
  2. Jul 26, 2022
    80
    Their ability to drop a pop banger has been proven already – they can do it – but they just find reimagining what Cybotron would sound like as a future-punk band, and that exploration in sound proves to be a gripping listen here.
  3. Jul 18, 2022
    80
    The album tells its own superbly structured story, bathing in synthesis and heavily grounded in the contexts of lockdown, while allowing these very contexts to steer the process beyond angst and towards a utopian catharsis.
  4. 80
    Working Men’s Club certainly wear the trauma well, but this riveting exploration truly thrives by seeking the light beyond the gloom.
  5. Mojo
    Jul 14, 2022
    80
    At best, Fear Fear is as compact and airless as its title, an existential crisis dancing in warm leatherette. [Aug 2022, p.87]
  6. Uncut
    Jul 14, 2022
    80
    This push-pull between melody and twisting beats, veering back and forth between dark and joyous moments, is the crux of this excellent album, one that glides snappily between acid electro, synth-washed indie, crunchy pop and dance-floor rippers. [Aug 2022, p.36]
  7. Jul 14, 2022
    80
    With ‘Fear Fear’, WMC already have a signature viewpoint all of their own - the fun is in seeing how they continue to play with it.
  8. Jul 14, 2022
    80
    This is an acutely refined album fuelled by energy and agitation from a group way ahead of their age.
  9. Jul 22, 2022
    70
    Working Men's Club dig even deeper into their black disco ball aesthetic, crafting an album full of acidic electronica that straddles the line between atonally robotic industrial music and dancefloor-friendly post-punk.

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